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Welcome!

Hello, Welcome-foreign, and welcome to Wikipedia! While efforts to improve Wikipedia are always welcome, unfortunately your contributions are not written in an English that is good enough to be useful. You appear to be more familiar with French; did you know there is a Wikipedia in French? You may prefer to contribute there instead. In any case, welcome to the project, and thank you for your efforts! If you need help, please feel free to notify me on my talk page. ~~~~

Bienvenue!

Bonjour, Welcome-foreign, et bienvenue sur Wikipédia ! Toute contribution visant à améliorer Wikipédia est la bienvenue. Malheureusement, vos modifications ne sont pas rédigées dans un anglais suffisamment correct pour pouvoir être conservées, ou ne sont pas rédigées en anglais. Vous semblez être plus à l'aise en français. Saviez-vous qu'il existe une Wikipédia en français ? Vous préféreriez peut-être y contribuer. En tout cas, bienvenue sur Wikipédia, et merci pour vos efforts ! Si vous avez besoin d'aide, n'hésitez pas à me contacter sur [[User talk:Wikipedia>Jonesey95|ma page de discussion]]. Merci ! ~~~~

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This welcome template may be used to welcome a user whose edits appear to show poor command of English (or whose edits are not in English at all) and who appear to be fluent in another language. It presents a brief welcome message in English, followed by an equivalent one in the other language, if a translation is available.

Usage

{{subst:Welcome-foreign|lang=xx}} # where 'xx' is a language code
{{subst:Welcome-foreign|xx}} # same as above

Parameters

There is one required parameter, the named param |lang= (alias: positional |1=):

  • |lang= – a language code; e.g., 'fr' for French, or 'es' for Spanish (see language code table)
  • |1= – same as above

Examples

Languages

The welcome will be issued in two languages: English, and the user's language, if the lang code corresponds to any of the following: Albanian, Arabic, Azerbaijani, Bengali, Bulgarian, Chinese, Dutch, Farsi, Finnish, French, German, Hausa, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Igbo, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Kinyarwanda, Korean, Latvian, Malay, Malayalam, Marathi, Oromo, Persian, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Somali, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Urdu, Vietnamese. (See full, up-to-date list via prefixindex or pattern search.)

If the lang code corresponds to a language not currently supported, the welcome message is issued in English only. The template may be easily expanded to include any Wikipedia language. See § Adding a new language for instructions.

Adding a new language

This template will work for any language listed in the language code table. The welcome will be issued in two languages if the lang code corresponds to a language for which a template subpage exists for that language. For example: it displays a bilingual welcome for Albanian, Chinese, Dutch, and so on, because the subpages Albanian, Chinese, and Dutch exist. It gracefully degrades to a monolingual English welcome if no subpage exists for the language.

To add a new language, simply add a new subpage with the language name from the table. In particular, the language name should correspond to the value of {{#language:xx|en}} where 'xx' is the language code (so, chr → 'Cherokee', fa → 'Persian', and so on). Translate the content of Template:Welcome-foreign/English into the new language, and save it as Template:Welcome-foreign/NewLanguage. The template code does not need to be changed, and will pick it up automatically as soon as you publish the subpage.

Suggestion: save early versions of your translation as Template:Welcome-foreign/NewLanguage (draft) until you're sure it's right. As soon as the file exists under the correct language name, it immediately goes live and can seen by the template.

Gendered languages: languages that use gender agreement may be accommodated in new translations using the pattern given in the wikicode at Template:Welcome-foreign/English. For example: in Spanish, the adjective bienvenido agrees in gender with the user's gender, which may be set in their preferences. A user with masculine preference will be greeted with Bienvenido (with an '-o' at the end) and users with a feminine preference will be greeted with Bienvenida ('-a' at the end). Those without a preference are greeted with the '-o' version in Spanish. The wikicode for the word 'Welcome' at Template:Welcome-foreign/Spanish is this:

  • {{gender:{{BASEPAGENAME}}|Bienvenido|Bienvenida|Bienvenido}}

If you are creating welcome text in a new language, you can follow the model above. If you are not comfortable with template code, just leave it out, use a neutral version (or combined version, like Bienvenido(a)) and leave an Edit request on the Template talk page asking for a template editor to adjust the content for gender agreement. Most of the messages generated using this template will handle gender issues automatically based on the gender preferences set by both users when needed.

Wrapper: Also consider creating a wrapper template for the new language; you can use Template:Welcomeen-fr as a model.

See also

Notes

Wrapper templates exist for welcoming users who speak specific languages; see Category:Non-English welcome messages.

Find subst count and examples of this template on User talk pages using this advanced search.[2026; 2025; 2024]

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